Ah, back home in my comfy work chair, feet up surrounded by the warm glow of computer monitors with the football game on (and at the right time, not 3 hours too early!) It was quite a week, and I learned more stuff this year than normal, and have a few nuggets I really should have known before, that I know now. I will say that there was an ...

Tomorrow night, March 15, I will be at the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group’s March meeting, then at SQL Saturday Richmond on Saturday the 19th, then finally back at home on the 25th for my home user group in Nashville (which I haven’t seen much of this year) to present a presentation that I am pretty fond of after having done it once before in ...

You know who you are. You have a presentation idea that has been percolating since last October. You have asked friends and coworkers if it is a good idea. You may have presented it at 10 SQL Saturdays to thunderous appreciation. You may have even tried to submit last year but was turned down. You have this abstract written and may have even ...

This next two weeks
are going to be awesome. May 11, I get to see the Who for probably the last
time ever. Saturday I am speaking
on Database Design at SQL Saturday in Atlanta,
then heading to Disney World. It rarely
gets even close to this good for a two week span, and SQL Saturday is a big
part of that. I love going to SQL ...

(Or “How I Sort of Attended PASS This Year After All and It Wasn’t as Horrible as it Might Have Been”)
Wow, my experience at this year’s MVP Summit and PASS Summit was not at all what I had expected it to be for me just weeks ago when I was planning my trip. Life intervened, and as my blog post last week here explained, the short of it is ...

This is going to be one of my toughest non-technical posts ever. And the reason it will be difficult will have an ancillary relationship to the Lortabs I have been taking for the last two days. It has everything to do with me being at home while the 2014 PASS Summit is going on. Previously, the only Summit I had missed was the first one in ...

Wow, where does the time go? Hope I see every reader there in Louisville this weekend for a lovely time. Say you live in Alaska and it would be too far to go in one day? Hey, we all have our problems (and don't tell anyone, but I am going to try to finish up video versions of these sessions by the end of the year.. shh.)
I will be doing my ...

Thursday night, at 6:00 (or so) I will be speaking in Richmond (http://richmondsql.org/cs2007/ ), talking about How to Implement a Hierarchy using SQL Server. The abstract is:
One of the most common structures you will come across in the real world is a hierarchy (either a single parent ''tree'' or a multi-parent ''graph''). Many systems ...

Every September for the past 12 years, not only does summer slowly come to an end, but it is the time that final preparations for the SQLPASS Summit are being made by just a ton of people. I have always focused on speaker preparations myself for the most part, but there are hundreds of other folks furiously prepping to make the trip up to ...

Today's interviewee is someone who
is quite a prolific writer, with her most recent book being Microsoft SQL
Server 2012 Reporting Services, having been released in May of 2013; and if you
check out her Linkedin page (http://www.linkedin.com/in/staciamisner), you will find 12
other books she has either authored or co-authored. And that is ...